Hermann stitdte



H. STUDTE.

WATER MOTOR.

(No Model.)

No. 397,096. Patented Jan. 29, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMANN STUDTE, 0]! SARONTY, PRUSSTA, GERMANY.

WATER- MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,096, dated January 29, 1889.

Serial N0. 282,930. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMANN STUDTE, a subject of the King of Prussia, residing at the village of Saronty, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented certain Improvements in ater-Motors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a water-motor of the class which comprises a water-wheel arranged under a column of water in a reservoir; and the object of my invention is to provide such a motor with two gates or conduits which lead the water from the reservoir to the wheel on diametricallyopposite sides of its axis, the water from one gate acting on the wheel in a direction opposite to that in which the water from the opposite gate acts.

My invention will be fully described hereinafter, and its novel features carefully defined in the claim.

The drawing which serves to illustrate my invention represents in vertical section a mofor embodying my improvements, the plane of the section being taken at right angles to the axis of the water-wheel.

A represents a water reservoir or holder, which should be, of course, as high or tall as possible, in order to furnish as great a head of water abow e the wheel as may be practicable This reservoir may in some situations be of the character of a penstock or of the trunk or flume of a turbine-wheel.

B is the water-wheel, which will be mounted to rotate in suitable bearings, preferably in the sides of the reservoir A. On the outwardly-projecting end of the shaft of wheel b may be fixed a pulley or a toothed wheel, from which power may be communicated to any point or machine desired. In the drawing 1 have represented the wheel B as provided with curved radial blades or buckets.

Overthe wheel is arranged a casing, a, which may be of sheet metal. This casing liouses part of the periphery of wheel B, leaving, however, a gate or conduit, to, for the passage-of water to the left side of the wheel, as seen in the drawing. lhe stream of water lowing through the gate cc passes directly downward upon the left side of the wheel, as indicated by the arrow at this point, and tends to rotate the wheel in the direction indicated by the arrow 2 thereon.

At the right side of the wheel the casing a extends down to form one wall of a gate or conduit, g through which the water reaches the right side of the wheel. The stream of water flowing to the wheel through gate 7 first passes down and under the pendent edge of the casing a, and then upward in a direction exactly opposite to the stream at x, as indicated by the arrow at this point; but as the two streams act on the wheel on diametrically opposite sides of its axis both streams tend to drive or rot-ate it in the same direction. The water passes from the wheel at a gate or outlet, 2', and flows thence into a waste or tailing pipe, 1). At g is a casingstrip with an inclined lip, which serves to prevent the water from the stream at y from flowing directly into the pipe I). In the pipe I) is a cock, (I, which when closed stops the rotation of the wheel B.

A cock, f, may be provided to draw water from the reservoir for household or other uses. In order to obtain a constant head of water on the wheel, the reservoir A should be kept full of water, and as much should flow in constantly as will pass off through cock (Z.

My motor is especially well adapted for such falls or sources as have a scanty supply of water, but considerable fall or head.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The combination, with the reservoir A, having a casing, a, in its base, a cock-controlled pipe, I), a casing-strip, g, and two water gates or conduits, :r and 1 arranged as set forth, of the water-wheel B, arranged in the base of said reservoir and partially inclosed by said casing, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses HERMANN STUDTE.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR Vocr, HORATIO R. BIGELOW. 

